World history is totally divided between the pre-industrial age and the post-industrial age. Then again by the nuclear age.
First we had sedentary versus nomadic with the near complete extinction of all nomads.
Next industrialized countries which destroy agricultural ones.
In US terms : first the nomadic native americans were wiped out, next industrialized north attacked the pre industrial south.
Nuclear age however doesnt create that division at all. Cant see why nuclear France is any different from non nuclear Australia.
Muslim domination and arab domination in particular typically centralizes on pre industrial
agricultural countries. From the 22 arab league states, none can be considered as industrialized and the majority can be clasified under third world countries. Remove oil income, and near all countries fall under third world.
And the story since has been massive encroachment of Muslim lands by the West.
Lets make it a bit more nuanced. All pre industrial cultures loose land to the industrialized powers. Again, not much land in the US or Canada belongs to the natives I believe.
Control has been achieved by installing dictators, like the Saudi dictatorship and the Kuwaiti dictatorship, and the Shah in Iran and Hussein in Iraq.
Saddam Hussein and Syrian Iraqi Baath party philosophy has nothing to do with control from the west. Michel Aflag might be christian but mostly pan arabic and honestly believing in a better arabic society. A secular btw.
You can say West meddled in Iran against Mossadegh. One of the last spasms of the Brittish empire. Persia is a bit complicated to discuss in this thread.
Implanting Israel has also been a method to control the Muslims and justify violence against them.
I dont believe that this statement is correct.
Although divide et impera was the backbone of Brittish colonialism, the creation of a Jewish state and the dismanteling of the Turkish territories, served totally different interests.
The attack of Iraq was another attempt to establish control.
Mostly correct. Iraq, as a regional power, needed to be destroyed. It didnt fit into the strategy of the west and US needed to safeguard at all cost the supply of oil from the middle east.
Morally reprehensible even if you take into account the world wide havoc and destruction which would have followed a collapse of the oil supply.
From the point of view of the US : it was the only thing they could do to safeguard their de facto position as world dominant power.
For the millions of Iraqis a living hell.
It was masterminded and run by sociopaths and psychopaths and it failed miserably.
Why do you think it failed ? Iraq as a regional power was destroyed and is now in hand of corrupt US inclined politicians.
I doubt it was masterminded by sociopaths. It was a brilliant and cheap move to preserve american intrests.
ISIS arose from the ruins of a decade long violent occupation
Islamic fundamentalism is ingrained in the middle east. They are still fighting a century old religious war. They dont need the west to start it or to fight towards their ultimate goal : genocide and total destruction of all non sunni. That is the essence of all religious wars. Exactly what is happening at this very moment in Yemen btw.
Isis, or similar, will always fill in a power vacuum in any islamic country. Also in Saudi when it will collapse.
and control of Iraqi oil slipped from US hands.
Rubbish
Its still firmly in « good » hands and besides its irrelevant since the west is controlling very firmly all routes for export of that oil.
Having oil is one thing, getting it on the market is a different issue. The US firmly controls all sea-lanes and Iraq is landlocked with only escape route : SYRIA. See a pattern here ?
Saddam experienced this first hand during iraq/Iran and later after the Koweit debacle.
He had to export oil through tankers into Turkey. Transporting crude by truck is desperate. Specially if you have to drive through a Kurdish infested mountain.
War spilled over into Syria and nobody knows who to support.
Yeah well, if we had common sense we would immediately support Bashar regime. A secular regime, ready to sit on the table and start negotiating. So maybe its time to stop all support to opposition and force on Bashar guarantees for kurds, a non attacking plan towards Israel and a general amnesty. (except for Isis thugs)
Oh but hey : we have Turkey there and thats the last thing they want.
The US is a major world menace and criminal state that has caused unbelievable harm and damage in the region.
Yeah yeah yeah, tout le monde il est beau tout le monde il est gentil and US is satan reincarnated.
The US is nowadays the dominant world empire without any opposition since the collapse of the USSR. The rôle of the US executives is to maintain this situation and, if possible, to consolidate further. All wealth in the US, all stability, all prosperity depends on this.
Our hunger for oil, wealth and luxury wired to a tribal mind, drives the necessity to maintain the status quo at all cost.
In French no omelette without breaking eggs.
Regrettable, but thats what the majority of western population wants.
And since we live in a democracy with people more interested in the hairy ass of Kim Kardashian than in global geopolitics ……..
